Natalie Portman Quotes
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I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly.
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There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
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I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.
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It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.
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Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.
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I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys.
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Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
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There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
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Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis.
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It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do.
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No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
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I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
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The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
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Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.
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Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
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In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.
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No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.